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Alex Jones, the only man willing to speak the truth: that journalists like me are all working for the CIA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Syndicated radio host and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Alex Jones has a few things to say about his jaw-dropping encounter with Piers Morgan on CNN Monday night.

“I give myself about an ‘A,’” Jones said on “The Alex Jones Show” Tuesday, appraising an appearance that mostly involved him shouting over Morgan and refusing to answer questions about what he deemed the “factoids” of gun violence. “The consensus is in. I would say 95% of people thought I just told it like it was, slammed him in the face….I’m proud of the job I did.”

Jones was ostensibly on the show to explain why he’d started a petition to have Morgan deported. Jones says the British TV personality is part of “the New World Order,” a corporatist, globalist conspiracy to suppress free people everywhere by taking away their guns, tracking their cell phones and poisoning them with psychoactive drugs in their drinking water, among other tactics.

(If you haven’t already watched the interview, it’s at the bottom of this post. It’s fascinating viewing — almost totally information-free, yet enlightening after its own fashion.)

On his radio show, Jones said his petition was never meant to be taken literally. “Obviously I know he’s not going to be deported,” he said. “I wanted to point out that we can culturally deport him. He’s already been culturally deported from England.”

He said he was surprised to be invited on Morgan’s show because “they knew live on air I would run over them,” and more surprised to see the state of CNN’s offices in New York, which he has visited several times in the past.

“When I was at CNN a decade ago, it was glistening,” he said. Now, he said, “it looks like Hitler’s bunker….torn-up carpet, feces all over the wall and on the floor in the bathroom. It’s rotting.

“Folks, I’ve been in those exact rooms,” he added. “It literally looked like a gas station bathroom in the worst part of town. It was rotting and those people were in hell. It’s a skeleton of what it was, it’s a globalist operation and they’re nothing.” He said he didn’t bother to wear a jacket for his appearance because “I don’t respect that show.”

Jones said his visit to CNN and his entire trip to New York provided abundant proof of his suspicion that Morgan is working in cahoots with the New World Order. “Let me tell you something, folks: New York City is a giant tomb,” he said. Anywhere he went in the city, he said, he was followed by undercover police posing as fans. “They knew where we were. They were obviously tracking us by our cell phones,” he said. “It was all just pure intimidation out of a movie.”

He said Morgan’s past admissions that he knew about the technique of cell phone hacking while editing British tabloids is proof that he is only posing as a journalist. “If you think a reporter knows how to phone-hack people, I’ve got a bridge to sell you,” he said. “These are government operatives…All these guys are CIA.”

“You’ve got a snotnosed accent and look like you’re anorexic,” he added, addressing an imaginary Morgan after the fact. “You look like a mannequin, a vampire. The only thing that scares me is looking like you.”

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try doing that in another country? what other country? Most industrialized nations have essentially the same constitution now a days. Forget his nationality and listen to what he is saying…..he’s not supporting gun control because he thinks it will stop the killing of americans or brits or chinese or whatever…..he is supporting gun control becuase he thinks it will stop the killing of people! It’s not a fundamental change in our laws…there was allready an asault weapons ban for a time and no tryanny or world war….calm down.

EXCELLENT! He is the WWF of internet radio. Love this: “You’ve got a snotnosed accent and look like you’re anorexic,” he added, addressing an imaginary Morgan after the fact. “You look like a mannequin, a vampire. The only thing that scares me is looking like you.” I want to hear him say “Whatchyou gone dooooo, when the government is coming…for youuuuuuuu!” And then flex or something like that. That would be worth the price of admission right there.

Just because someone rattles off what sounds like data points doesn’t mean he’s being informative. Case in point: AJ responding to the number of gun homicides in the U.K. (a few dozen annually) with the number of stabbings. Sounds like a counter-argument, unless you take a second to consider whether stabbings and shootings are equally fatal. Spoiler alert: They’re not. (See http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/1997/02/24/knives-00006/ for example.)

Given the sheer number of loosely reasoned arguments Jones made on CNN and on his own show, knocking them all down would be a full-time occupation, one that’s both impossible and unnecessary. If you really need me to “prove” that Mayor Bloomberg did not dispatch legions of undercover cops to intimidate Jones, or that the Aurora theater shooter wasn’t the victim of a mind-control experiment programmed by the Army to conduct a massacre to give the government grounds to repeal the Second Amendment…well, I can’t really help you. Conspiracy theories are by nature unfalsifiable. Every proof of their falsity is dismissed as another layer of cover-up.

Disagree. You might want to take up a “full-time occupation” to uncover the truth instead of disregarding people who have actually spent years to weed through all the mainstream media LIES. It will all play out… We know who wins in the end.

I love the dramatic forboding tone of this comment. Here’s what’s “troubling”…that some of you have forgot about brutal dictatorships that have led us into the most catastrophic wars in history. You’ve forgotten the images of bodies being bulldozed into pits and buried in mass unmarked graves.

Yes, it’s so “troubling” that people aren’t all reacting impulsively like you are. A classroom of kids gets shot up, a tragic incident but it’s clouded your better judgment. Read a history book. Study all of the old governments and run a tally of those executed since we first started recording our history. And then tell me what I should be more concerned with…armed individual nutcases with murderous intentions or fanatic ideologues with their very own military and who infiltrate government with murderous intentions? An organized entity with advanced technology and WMDs.

Something tells me that a lot of you want this to end badly. And if there happens to be a few Wacos in the future you’ll get off on it because that’s how divisive this country has become. People like you hate the Christian conservatives with a passion…but I can’t really blame you because they hate you too, just in a Flander’s wife sort of way. Bottom line is that we’ve never trusted government and they never let us down with their corruption and unrestrained pursuit of wealth at the expense of others. They never cease to amaze us with their manipulative tactics and underhanded collaboration with media and multinational corporations. And of course they never, ever, cease to amaze with their willingness to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people for what they deem righteous and just causes. And their audacity, to back Al Quaeda in Libya openly…come on, America is the LAST place that needs gun control. We have the most belligerent government in the world.